Blink 182 Forced To Postpone Start Of World Tour After Travis Barker’s Brutal Finger Injury

Fans of blink-182 were near asking, “Where Are You?” connected Wednesday (Mar. 1), aft the set – Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker, and the returning Tom DeLonge – announced that they would postpone the commencement of their world tour owed to Travis, 47, undergoing country to hole his wrecked finger. With the archetypal limb of the circuit acceptable for South America this month, Tom, 47, broke the quality via an Instagram video that the set wouldn’t marque it. “I wanted to accidental I’m truthful atrocious to everyone successful South America that we couldn’t beryllium down there,” helium said. “This is thing that we person been aiming to bash for truthful long, and we worked truthful hard, and we conscionable benignant of had 1 of those freak accidents that cipher saw coming.”

“Travis needs to spell successful and person country connected his finger, and we person to get that well, and we person to get that beardown earlier we tin bash thing else,” Tom added. “This is conscionable truthful sad. These were the biggest shows we ever played; these are immoderate of the astir important places successful the satellite for a band. This was similar the pinnacle of our vocation was coming down and playing for you guys, truthful I truly privation you each to cognize that we’re devastated.”

Thankfully, Tom said that the set was going to marque up the postponed dates successful 2024. He apologized for the hold to each the fans who person been waiting to spot the Mark, Tom, and Travis amusement again. “This is conscionable devastating connected truthful galore levels. But, we’re going to get Travis better, and we’re going travel down, the 3 of us, together, and we’re going rock, and we’re going person an unthinkable clip with you guys.” Tom stressed “from my bosom to yours” however overmuch playing for the fans means to the set and that this determination was not thing they took lightly. “This is not thing that we could adjacent person saw coming. It is conscionable devastating. But we emotion you, Blink 182 loves you, and we volition spot you soon.”

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Travis announced connected Feb. 27 that helium had “surgery tomorrow” aft injuring his ringing digit doubly during rehearsals for the tour. The IG Gallery gave fans a gruesome look astatine conscionable however damaged the digit was, with the knuckle seemingly swollen to the constituent wherever it appeared to beryllium successful the incorrect spot on the finger.

What happened? “I was playing the drums astatine rehearsals yesterday, and I smashed my digit truthful hard I dislocated it and tore the ligaments,” Travis tweeted connected Feb. 8. Less than 2 weeks later, helium sported a brace connected his near hand portion connected a stroll with Kourtney Kardashian, right aft helium shared via Instagram Story that he’d wounded his digit again.

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